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A Touch of Ruin

Hades & Persephone, Book 2

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A Touch of Ruin

By: Scarlett St. Clair
Narrated by: Meg Sylvan
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Persephone's relationship with Hades has gone public, and the resulting media storm disrupts her normal life and threatens to expose her as the Goddess of Spring.

Hades, God of the Dead, is burdened by a hellish past that everyone's eager to expose in an effort to warn Persephone away.

Things only get worse when a horrible tragedy leaves Persephone's heart in ruin and Hades refusing to help. Desperate, she takes matters into her own hands, striking bargains with severe consequences.

Faced with a side of Hades she never knew and crushing loss, Persephone wonders if she can truly become Hades' queen.

Contains mature themes.

©2020 Scarlett St. Clair (P)2020 Tantor Fantasy Fiction Magic Mythology Ancient Greece Greek Mythology Heartfelt

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Okay so I usually don’t like to be negative with my reviews, there are elements in this book that I enjoyed, and I loved the first book. But…Persephone was just a little bit annoying in this book. Gah! I don’t want to be mean but she would just jump the gun and get mad at everything and the typical “lack of communication” trope came in to play a lot. But I guess main characters aren’t always meant to be perfect and they have to be flawed. I still enjoyed this book but I was getting a little frustrated at times. With that being said though, I’m eagerly awaiting the next books release!

A fun escape buuut

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I enjoyed the first book so i was excited to read this one, but so many points I found myself wanting to throttle Persephone. I usually enjoy strong willed female characters, but she acted completely petulantly throughout most of this book.
She ignores the wishes of her friends purely because she wants to do something. Like, I understand doing what you think is right but she really needs to think about how it might affect other people before doing it!
She gets stupidly angry at Hades for having had lovers before her which is really unfair, when he’s millions of years old and she’s a child. And then also gets angry at him for “keeping secrets” that don’t really have anything to do with her, when she also keeps secrets, but hers directly affect him!
I also understand wanting to be strong and independent, especially as a young girl who has been controlled a lot of her life, but she doesn’t seem to understand that accepting help is not the same as running and hiding. I’ll give her a bit of a break on that one because of how she grew up, it probably wouldn’t come naturally to her, but she could at least consider help.
She seems to take a whole step back from book one to this one.
Also, there was a bit at the end that seemed to be tacked on randomly just cuz? Like, it added nothing in my opinion. Maybe it’ll be expanded on in the next book but it really, really didn’t need to be added in, it began and then was over so quickly. If given more chance it could’ve been a very interesting part to the story but unfortunately it fell flat.
Random nitpick but is Anthony a Cyclops or an Ogre??

Not as good as book 1

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Just as good as the first, downloaded the next book straight away.
The narrator makes it all the better.

Brilliantly read

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The book ends "in the middle of" the story. Too abruptly. Too extreme for me considering the next book is coming out in over a year.

Ends abruptly

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Love love love this Book 2 of the Hades and Persephone Series. Fantastic, enchanting, heartbreaking, rollercoaster of emotions, loving, and last but not least I was unable to stop listening. Starting Book 📖 3 now ❤️😍📚📖❤️

Hades and Persephone Book 📚 2

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God Persephone ruined this for me, she’s so whiny and annoying - I get she’s young but do we need it every chapter ???

Great performance, awful story

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truly wonderful book just as well written and the last and beautiful read by narrator

amazing

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I found myself disliking Persephone. I look forward to Hades perspective.

Found myself skipping between reading and listening.

Not as enjoyable as previous book.

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Loved the previous book and I also read the Hades version, but the first half of this book was honestly insufferable. I almost stopped reading multiple times even though I felt so invested in the series. Persephone completely changes and acts childish and bipolar, I think the author was trying to portray Persephone powers taking control of her but this was just annoying to read and I was getting annoyed by her character and it came completely out of nowhere because this book continues straight from where it ended in the first book… It got better by the end of it and end on a good insight for the next book.

Skip the first half of the book!

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She was waaaaaay too whiny and silly for my liking, until it got painful to listen to, and I had to take a break. I enjoyed her character better in book 1, where she demonstrated more courage, more fortitude and generally more sense! I have to know what happens to Hades & Sef so I'll venture into book 3, especially since I'd already bought it... let's hope the character development is more concrete there!

Persephone's character tanked in book 2

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